{"id":25733,"date":"2025-05-14T17:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/kiss-gene-simmons-reveals-moment-rock-and-roll-all-nite-was-born-and-reflects-on-being-a-chameleon\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:29:40","slug":"kiss-gene-simmons-reveals-moment-rock-and-roll-all-nite-was-born-and-reflects-on-being-a-chameleon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/kiss-gene-simmons-reveals-moment-rock-and-roll-all-nite-was-born-and-reflects-on-being-a-chameleon\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS&#8217; Gene Simmons reveals moment &#8220;Rock and Roll All Nite&#8221; was born and reflects on being a &#8220;chameleon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>For more than half a century, KISS&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/gene-simmons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Gene Simmons<\/a> has been one of the most recognizable figures of rock and roll. Simmons rose to stardom as the &#8220;demonic&#8221; bassist and co-lead singer of the rock band formed in New York City in 1973.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All my life I&#8217;ve been a chameleon. Everything is a costume,&#8221; Simmons said in an interview for &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; that aired on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But his devilish make-up and theatrical persona are a stark contrast to his very humble upbringing as the son of an immigrant single mother. Long before he became a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kiss-announce-farewell-tour-set-to-conclude-in-nyc-madison-square-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">KISS icon<\/a><\/span>, he was known simply as Chaim Witz, meaning &#8220;life&#8221; in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The road to KISS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/14\/28855d36-3a1c-4e17-aca4-2c8fe60c165c\/thumbnail\/620x349\/acf4eb1c5538adc04ace63b16465fd45\/screenshot-2025-05-14-at-11-21-12-am.png?v=d8ac70a2c93631c1c3223eab6ec7acf9#\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-05-14-at-11-21-12-am.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/14\/28855d36-3a1c-4e17-aca4-2c8fe60c165c\/thumbnail\/620x349\/acf4eb1c5538adc04ace63b16465fd45\/screenshot-2025-05-14-at-11-21-12-am.png?v=d8ac70a2c93631c1c3223eab6ec7acf9 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">KISS&#8217; Gene Simmons reflects on his childhood in an interview with &#8220;CBS Mornings.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Mornings<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;You want to be in a rock band?&#8221; Simmons recalled his mother asking. &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to fly, babe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before moving to New York at age 8, Simmons was born in Israel \u2013 a child of Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Flora Klein, survived the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the horrific unimaginable life my mother went through where she saw her entire family, our family, wiped out in front of her face, every decision I was going to make I thought about my mother first,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons vowed to be there for his mother every step of the way, reminding himself, &#8220;Don&#8217;t break your mother&#8217;s heart. Don&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said it was an observation his mother made that inspired him to be a musician. While watching The Beatles perform on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8221; one night, Simmons recalled his mother coming in and commenting in Hungarian. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget this\u2026she said something like, in Hungarian, &#8216;They&#8217;re really weird people.&#8217; And at that point, I thought they&#8217;re cool,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The birth of &#8220;Rock and Roll All Nite&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After making some money from singing background for other artists at New York City&#8217;s Electric Lady Studios, Simmons and his pal <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/paul-stanley-on-band-feuds-fame-and-kiss-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Paul Stanley<\/a><\/span> went on to form the legendary band KISS in their early 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Kramer, who worked with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/the-beatles-us-invasion-50-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">The Beatles <\/a><\/span>and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jimi-hendrix-to-paul-mccartney-in-1969-telegram-join-my-super-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a><\/span>, agreed to produce and engineer their first demo. But they struggled in obscurity until a challenge from their label&#8217;s president led to one of the most famous lines in rock history.<\/p>\n<p>While buying frozen hot dogs and a can of beans in San Francisco, Simmons recalls Stanley turning to him and humming some of the lyrics to the song that would later become the iconic 1975 hit &#8220;Rock and Roll All Nite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were in San Francisco, we went downstairs to buy frozen hotdogs and a can of beans. And Paul said, what do you think of this?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s really good. What do you got? He goes, &#8216;That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got,'&#8221; said Simmons after Stanley sang the chorus. They eventually put more verses together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s how the song was born,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>By 1977, following the release of their concert album &#8220;Alive!&#8221;, they were one of the most famous bands in America. Today, KISS has more gold albums than any other American band and has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kiss-sells-music-catalog-300-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sold more than 100 million records<\/a><\/span> worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though KISS retired from performing as a band, Simmons, now 75, is currently on tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re running a race in a sense, the race of life and the finish line is coming up right ahead of you. What are you going to do? 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